Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:18:04AM -0800, Vincent Fox wrote: > >> Our latest line of investigation goes back to the Fastmail suggestion, >> simply >> have multiple Cyrus binary instances on a system. Each running it's own >> config and with it's own ZFS filesystems out of the pool to use. >> Since we can bring up a virtual interface for each instance we won't even >> have to bother with using separate port numbers, etc. >> > > Also virtual interfaces means you can move an instance without having > to tell anyone else about it (but it sounds like you're going with an > "all eggs in one basket" approach anyway) > > Bron. > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > The Solaris' zones feature has been mentioned a few times w/ regard to large cyrus installs. Has anybody tried running Cyrus under Xen virtualization in linux to achieve similar goals... whether in production, on a single system, or to simulate a murder or other environment? I'd be interested in a way to accommodate ~100,000 users under one domain (with the scalability to at least double in size). With little experience with Murder, I am favoring a perdition/nginx setup using multiple backends, each @ ~ 10k users. This seems the most straight forward to me as I can easily use simple algorithms compatible with postfix/perdition/cyrus/my brain to create mailboxes and route mail/connections to an appropriate backend cyrus server and I can easily see the design scaling past 200,000 users. However, if I can use virtualization to increase capacity/reduce costs it would certainly be a worthwhile endeavor to test. -B ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
